Rashaad Newsome at Studio Museum Harlem & De Buck Gallery

<p>Studio Museum Harlem presents 'Rashaad Newsome: THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE', an exhibition featuring Rashaad Newsome’s work about the dance form known as Vogue.</p><p>For over a decade, Newsome has worked with members of the Vogue community, which developed in New York City’s queer ballroom scene of the 1970s. With a particular interest in critiquing the popular appropriation of Vogue in the early 1990s, and with the aim to bring these queer communities of color from the Vogue scene into the institutional space, Newsome created work that reframes how performers are represented, and highlights their enormous talent for style and bodily movement. Featuring video and collage works made between 2008 to 2014, THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE explores the beauty, agency and complexities of Vogue and performance art.</p><p>More info:<br><a href="http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/rashaad-newsome-what-i-want-see#sthash.96fkxJW1.dpuf">studiomuseum.org</a></p><p>De Buck Gallery presents 'Stop Playing in My Face!' by Rashaad Newsome, including collages which evolve from abstracted Baroque-esque designs that incorporate symbols of these subcultures to personified figurative subjects with clearly recognizable human faces and bodies. Compositionally, these works are still heavily influenced by Newsome’s interest in the rules of heraldry and the use of contemporary pop cultural status symbols.<br></p><p>More info:<br><a href="https://www.debuckgallery.com/exhibitions/stop-playing-in-my-face/">debuckgallery.com</a></p>